Courts

Conflicts settled by gunfire are tragically common in New Orleans, but there was nothing routine about this one: The dead
man was retired football player Will Smith, a star on the 2006 Saints team who helped lift the stricken city's spirits
with a winning season after Hurricane Katrina, and played with the team when it won the franchise's only Super Bowl three
seasons later. Jury selection begins Monday in the trial of the man accused in his killing after a road-rage incident.

An Indianapolis subsidized senior-citizens housing facility must face a lawsuit from disabled tenants who claim the three-story
apartment building failed to repair its only elevator for weeks, leaving them unable to get to apartments on the top two stories
and leaving some disabled tenants stranded upstairs.

A 2008 Hartford City ordinance that restricted registered sex offenders from entering or loitering within 300 feet of broadly
defined “child safety zones” is unconstitutionally vague, a federal judge has ruled.

Res judicata prevents a title insurance company from taking a “second bite” at the apple, the Indiana Court of
Appeals ruled Friday, in a case in which the company appealed dismissal of its second attempt to challenge an action by the
Indiana Department of Insurance.

Three former presidents of the city’s Capital Improvement Board—Pat Early, Bob Grand and Ann Lathrop—are
fighting an effort by attorneys for the IRS to depose them about what they learned about the Indiana Pacers' finances
during discussions with the team.

Gina Miller is paying the price for going to court. The financial entrepreneur says she has received death threats and racial
and sexual abuse since she won a High Court ruling forcing the British government to seek Parliamentary approval before leaving
the European Union.

An Indiana Department of Child Services case manager who allegedly pursued meritless child-abuse allegations against an Indianapolis
mother must face a federal civil lawsuit, though her DCS supervisors will not, a judge has ruled.

In oral arguments on a petition to transfer a case regarding a general contractor’s duty of care to its subcontractors,
the justices of the Indiana Supreme Court considered the meaning of the phrase “monitor and implement.”

A defense attorney who has since been disbarred prejudiced his absent client when he referred to him as a “Negro”
before potential jurors, a judge wrote, but the offending word wasn’t enough for the Court of Appeals to grant post-conviction
relief.

Indiana’s rules regarding chemical breath tests can be read as a recipe, with each rule laid out for the process of
testing someone’s blood alcohol content meant to be followed sequentially, said the attorney for a woman challenging
her misdemeanor drunken-driving charges.

Anthem Inc. could face a penalty of about $3 billion from the national Blue Cross Blue Shield Association if it fails to derive
the bulk of its nationwide revenue from Blue-branded products after acquiring Cigna Corp., according to testimony from an
Anthem executive during a U.S. antitrust trial in Washington.

In court papers lodged Tuesday, Katie Couric contends that a gun rights group has read too much into pregnant silence in Under
the Gun. She's now moved for dismissal of a $13 million lawsuit with the argument that eight seconds from the two-hour-long
documentary are incapable of defamatory meaning.

An Allen County judge has dismissed the city of Fort Wayne’s complaint against the county auditor’s allocations
of taxes, writing that the case should be heard in the Indiana Tax Court, not a trial court.

After several employees from one civil engineering firm began soliciting employees from a competitor, the Indiana Court of
Appeals held Wednesday that a trial court correctly issued a preliminary injunction to force the employees to comply with
non-compete and non-solicitation clauses they had signed.

A seemingly divided U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday tried to figure out whether the government can detain immigrants indefinitely
without providing hearings in which they could argue for their release.

Although he was hired to work on a specific project for a southern Indiana construction company, a worker who was injured
on a construction job must seek damages through Indiana’s Worker’s Compensation Act because he was considered
an “employee” of the company.